When I allow myself to be filled up with accomplishments, I only want to accomplish more. But if I make myself believe I’m starving on some meager offering…. Well that doesn’t inspire does it?
I feel like we are being sabotaged with this deeply unhelpful language.
You can pretty much run most democracies if you can get 30% of the population to vote for you; if you can't get that many people to just to check a box for your cause, how many people do you think will sign up for "risk your life for our cause"?
Whoever in Redmond decided to move the start button should be fired, into the sun. The corner is an infinitely large button! What is the obsession with making OSX but twenty years later?!?
I think a lot more than conservatism is driven by "nostalgia for when you were 10" - a yearning for when things felt simple and right; you didn't know about the bad things in the world, and you want that feeling back
I've been thinking a lot lately, as a 40 year old, about how central the "charismatic savior" figure has been in our presidential elections. With Obama, Trump, and Sanders, there's been a personality-centered movement available to buy into, and how that's shaped voter excitement and expectation
Realistically, between who is in Congress, the courts, and how little the federal government interacts with the average person's life, life under a Sanders (or any other Dem) presidency would have largely been similar to Biden's, but the energy would be very different, which says, idk, something
Not to dig too much into the whole vibecession discourse, but America is in the middle of broad-based prosperity (real wages are up, inflation adjusted consumer spending is up, personal financial security sentiment is at relative highs, etc etc) and yet we're staring down a hugely contested election
TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz
BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops.
NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
For everyone on here that is worried that voters are as willfully credulous as our news media, the Biden campaign understands that Trumps post about Project 2025 is an admission of vulnerability and they are leaning in harder on tying him to it.
Anyway, I don’t know what the right solution is. The debate was bad but the hysteria has transformed it from a half hour of jumbled answers from an old man with a raspy voice to 90 minutes of on-air catatonia. That never happened. I certainly want to see how Biden handles his interview tomorrow.
It's telling that the NYT dug around for a monarchist weirdo (who votes lol) to write their "Don't vote" piece, instead of one of the many available exhausted leftists antielectorialists
I've been coming to terms with how my adult life has been a series of charismatic figureheads for president, basically since 2004, and certainly 2008. Especially difficult given the (former) limits on how much a president can actually do, it's a system of "things suck, where is the savior figure"
I'm gonna be honest, this is the first CT I've seen that actually looks pretty cool. The rim geometry is bad, but the metallic red actually pulls it into the cyberpunk aesthetic it's supposed to be
“Voting is a lot like vaccination: it only works if enough of us do it, and the absolute dumbest motherfuckers on the planet try to talk you out of it.”
From @torriangray.bsky.social
I remember when Trump was defeated, seeing people non violently celebrating in the streets
and I remember the cops, especially NYPD, crying.
You should remember this too. You should REALLY remember this.
